Reeperbahn Festival begins Tomorrow in Hamburg

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 1:28 pm

From the 18th through the 21st of September 2019, Reeperbahn Festival, Europe’s biggest club festival, will celebrate 14 years of presenting the next wave of music talent from around the world in the legendary club district of St. Pauli and continue to serve as a top destination for international artists and industry.

Over 90 venues will host an impressive international line-up of over 425 bands including: Feist (CA), Sebadoh (US), Aurora (NO), Efterklang (DK), Gurr (DE), We Were Promised Jetpacks (UK), and many more. Reeperbahn Festival will also focus on Australia in 2019 and present the finest up-and-coming acts from “down under”.

Nearly 60 years since The Beatles arrived in Hamburg from Liverpool, the famous clubs of the city’s St. Pauli district still provide a unique opportunity to catch tomorrow’s music stars. Today, Reeperbahn Festival is where future trends are born and where forward thinking policies for the industry and world are shaped.

With hundreds of curated concerts and dozens of panels, discussion roundtables, speeches, presentations, multimedia and multi-cultural content happening throughout Hamburg’s St. Pauli district, Reeperbahn Festival is again positioning itself not only as a progressive music event, but also as a place of origin for social change. Questions of today will find their artistic answers of tomorrow. For example, the EU-subsidised initiative Keychange, established principally by Reeperbahn Festival over the past two years, commit themselves once again to strengthen the role of women in music and to trigger changes that would ideally reach far beyond the music industry sector.

Of the 425 acts performing at the festival, the 8 most promising will be presented as part of the ANCHOR music competition to a top-class jury comprising of legendary producers Bob Rock (Metallica, Mötley Crüe) and Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T-Rex) along with musicians Peaches and Kate Nash, as well as Australian television and radio presenter Zan Rowe and the Beatsteaks’ lead singer Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß. In addition to live music, the festival features a program of stunning visual arts as well as a film and literature.

Europe’s biggest club festival in its 14th year

It is its mix of a future political congress and a gathering of the music world across generations that makes Reeperbahn Festival unique. The 4-day event continues to lure a growing number of music fans, industry, and international musicians to Hamburg’s legendary St Pauli district. From 18 to 21 September 2019, there will be over 600 live concerts across 90 different venues, with some 50,000 visitors expected to attend. In addition to the countless iconic live clubs in Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn entertainment district, this year’s venues will also include churches, galleries, record shops, the spectacular Grand Hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and for the very first time, the Hamburg Planetarium where Iceland’s Ólafur Arnald's commissioned production "Ekki Hugsa 360°" will be one of several world premieres on the festival’s program.

In addition to live music, Reeperbahn Festival’s conference targets the music industry’s stakeholders and the creative digital economy and includes sessions, showcases, networking events, world premieres, competitions, and awards such as the ANCHOR – Reeperbahn Festival’s International Music Award and the international prize for excellent music journalism (IMJA). For further information and to view the full line-up, please visit http://www.reeperbahnfestival.com.

The Sound of Hamburg – New TV documentary “VYNL Hamburg”

Just in time for Reeperbahn Festival, a brand-new travel documentary, “VYNL Hamburg” captures the diverse sound of the Hanseatic city while introducing viewers to Hamburg’s historic yet vibrant landscape and showcases the unique places and varied sounds that merge to create a one-of-a-kind music experience. The report is now broadcasting internationally and on PBS in the US in October. It can be viewed online at: http://www.hamburg-travel.com/vynl.

Discover Hamburg – City of Music

If you would like to experience the Reeperbahn Festival and the vibrant St Pauli district first-hand, you can book your hotel or accommodation package from the experts at Hamburg Tourism.

Visit www.hamburg-travel.com or call +49 40 30051 720.

Come Together Experience - The Hamburg Beatles Experience

Launch of new festival to mark 60th birthday of the world’s most successful band!

Sun, 09/29/2019 - 3:00 pm

Lorimer Beacon

In 1960 a band was born in Hamburg. Five young amateur musicians from Liverpool gave their first performance as The Beatles at the Indra Club in the city’s St Pauli district.

Later, when he’d achieved the status of global icon, John Lennon would say, “I grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool.”

As neatly summed up by Mark Lewisohn, the world’s leading authority on The Beatles, “No Hamburg, no Beatles!”

Until now, in spite of Hamburg’s unique rock’n’roll connections and the Reeperbahn’s fame as birthplace of The Beatles, the only initiative keeping this legacy alive in the city has been the Beatles-Platz. But all that’s about to change! The newly founded Come together Experience, a start-up whose mission stems from a passion for The Beatles’ music, is launching a festival to fill this gap for millions of fans worldwide. The Fab Four’s music, message and spirit are timeless, and have lost none of their power and impact. It’s all about creativity, songwriting, innovation, humour, style, spirituality and togetherness. As Brexit looms and the world holds its breath, the new festival is calling on everyone to come together and is working in close cooperation with Liverpool’s hugely successful International Beatleweek, which has been running for almost thirty years. For Come Together, the Hamburg–Liverpool axis familiar to Beatles fans everywhere offers potential for the exchange of ideas, music and inspiration.

Come Together is launching what’s set to be a multi-faceted annual festival in 2020, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the band’s first gig in Hamburg. The inaugural event will take place on Friday 27 March 2020 at Große Freiheit 36, and will be followed by concerts that night and the next at the Indra, Kaiserkeller and Gruenspan clubs, the first two of these being venues where The Beatles themselves performed in the early 60s.

The festival Theme Park will recreate the stages the band performed on, as well as other original Beatles sites such as two rooms on the Star-Club floor at the Hotel Pacific or their cramped lodgings above the Top Ten Club.

An interactive Beatles Tour taking in the original Beatles locations of St Pauli’s infamous red-light district is in preparation, with the collaboration of Professor Jens Bley, Co-Founder of eCultureLab@HCU (HafenCity University Hamburg).

As well as the concerts and Theme Park there will also be exhibitions of work by Hamburg-based Beatles photographers and talks and panel discussions involving people who were there at the time, together with Beatles experts such as Mark Lewisohn and US historian Dr Julia Sneeringer, who did extensive research in Hamburg for her book A Social History of Early Rock'n'Roll in Hamburg. Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles 1956–69.

Central to Come together is a focus on the next generation of musicians in Hamburg. The festival is working closely with Popkurs run by Hamburg’s Musikhochschule, with the Hamburg School of Music and the arts organization Lukulule. Come together will bring together national and international artists, young musicians and stars, working across generations and genres. The festival will forge a lasting connection between Hamburg and its artists and the history of The Beatles, laying the foundations for new creative initiatives in the future.

Uriz von Oertzen, Managing Director of the Come Together Experience, worked on the construction of the Beatles-Platz, which opened in 2008 and has since become one of the most photographed places in Hamburg. Music and Beatles fan Von Oertzen is initiating the festival with project developer Thomas Kolbatz and musician and Beatles expert Stefanie Hempel, who will act as its host and music director. Hempel has been leading fans of every nationality around St. Pauli for fifteen years on her musical Beatles Tour, hailed by MTV UK as "the greatest Beatles tour of all time". On 14 November 2019 Hempel, her band and an array of guest artists will present an Abbey Road 50th-anniversary tribute concert. She will also host the opening Come Together concert and will perform with her band on both nights of the festival.

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